Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

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So what made me so afraid that day standing outside with Janie? I am a mature, twenty- three-year-old woman. Not a close-minded, timid middle schooler! Who cares what people think of me or my family! Does my mom’s bumper sticker define her as a person? Does my mom’s bumper sticker define me as a person? Does supporting Donald Trump make my mother and everyone associated with her a raciest, biggest joke? Of course not! In the same way that Hillary Clinton supporters are not at all crooked, feminist liars.
 
This moment stayed with me throughout the entire election. From dinners with Janie (she still talked to me, of course) and her liberal, progressive friends, where I would nod and agree- even if I didn’t agree at all, to weekly Scrabble matches with my strictly Fox-watching, conservative family, where I would nod and agree- even if I didn’t agree at all. I was a mess. I felt there was no true place I could voice my opinion without feeling judged on a personal level rather than a political one. When that fateful time came and it was just me alone in the voting booth, I had no idea who I was, or what I stood for. Can a woman vote for Trump? Can a person who once voted for Mitt Romney vote for Hillary Clinton? I was conflicted then and I am conflicted now standing in my living room watching Donald Trump become the next President of the United States. How I wished I could go back to the days where my nail color and Barbie Steering Wheel were my defining qualities. Where all I wanted to be was like my mother, when identity was comfortable and familiar. Since when did identity, literally, become so political?

Juliet Davis’s e-literature text, “Pieces of Herself,” brings my exact realization out the subconscious and into an interactive moment accessible to everyone, where the doll, like me, discovers the significance of her identity through the people in her life, the settings she finds herself in, and the objects she fills herself with. Before returning to the contemporary, confusing moment we find ourselves in post-election, I would like to break down each component of Davis’s text into signifiers and connotations. By labeling each piece of the text and assigning meaning, we will be able to better analyze how to interact with the piece and fill the doll, according to unique preferences and understandings. Once we have broken down the components by designating each signifier and defining their use, we will be equipped to utilize these fragments to rebuild the barrier between personal and political identity for the doll as well as for us, the readers. So go on! Click below, Step One: Assign Signifiers to get started!

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